After more than 30 years with The Sydney Morning Herald and Fairfax Media in Australia, Greg Growden now writes exclusively online for ESPNscrum. Never afraid to step on toes, you can expect plenty of compelling insight from one of Australia's most renowned rugby writers.

The 15 Super Rugby teams each have a sprinkling of stardust in their squad - even the Lions - but which players will grab more than their fair share of headlines this season? Greg Growden lists six players he thinks will make a major impression on the competition in 2014.

While Daniel Carter has a break during the Super Rugby season, this might be the moment for the Hurricanes No.10 to show he's the man to take the All Blacks to Rugby World Cup 2015. Barrett is certainly something special.

Has the Springboks legend gone mad? He's in his mid-30s and hasn't played for three years, but now he wants to return to the Bulls and Springboks colours. The middle of the lineout is not exactly the place where someone can hide.

A player is top shelf when he can impress, overwhelm even, when the rest of his team fall apart. That was the case with the Highlanders fullback last year, when he was a Super Rugby standout even though the rest of his side played as if they were punch-drunk. Now co-captain, can he resurrect Highlanders rugby?

Which players do you think will feature most prominently this season? Leave a comment below or join the conversion with Greg Growden on Twitter (@GregGrowden) using the hashtag #SuperRugbyStars

After enduring a tricky start to his Manchester United career, perhaps it is fair that Marcos Rojo celebrated so boisterously as he watched his first professional club Estudiantes beat fierce rivals Gimnasia